So...Armor and All res...design issue...no useful gems for jewelry

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So, I brought this up a week ago, now that people are sporting a bunch of ubers, you’ll all notice that there is almost no useful gems.

Please find a solution.

Next, aspects that help with armor (i don’t think there is much all res stuff), should probably be redesigned? Seems fairly useless unless it’s for gearing progression to make armor and all rest obsolete.

General feeling about amor and resistances, I’m just used to these being a core defensive mechanic that you need in an ARPG. Conceptionally, at least armor is universal and should at least be a bit more important to gearing.

But a lot of gear has made armor and all res essentially a throw-away stat. Like LOH and Regen.

almost never need a GA armor or AR piece of gear, I guess it helps with stash.

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Armor is funny. You can over-cap it with a Juggernaught aspect and a pair of pants or helmet then never look at it again.

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You can overcap it with a single GA roll.

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you dont really need to use juggernaut anymore at all. i personally only used it early during lvling.

i usually try to undercap the armor cap, and then get the last points through my paragon board by making small adjustments.

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I had lower levels in mind but yeah it’s silly. I am almost at 85% res cap on all with my lucky-roll Tyriels too. Res/armor tempers are a waste.

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i think i need to use 1 armor temper personally. but yea, the gem situation for jewelry is kinda weird.

also nice. got lucky on my tyraels too!

ill have to reroll it someday as the 3rd crit went to all res sadly hah

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Practically speaking, it is now an afterthought, which is okay I guess, but least add some new gems

cdr, rcr, loh, regen, whatever.

From a foundational systems level, armor and all res - primary defensive core shouldn’t be this way, but…shrug.

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Yes, I have a couple empty gem slots on ring/amulet because nothing I can add would do anything. I wish we had attack / cast speed gems or mana regen gems etc to add some flavor or fill some gaps.

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an issue is also i guess that tyraels just is too strong. i mean basically everyone wants to wear it.

i mean max res increase… all res… easy 40% damage reduction with two temper crits, and movementspeed which you wont find elsewhere on armor.

that armor is pretty much the holy grail.

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the game hasn’t even left alpha stage yet… :rofl:

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Tyraels + shako, makes armor and all res is almost always completely covered, which may be the point.

I dunno, seems mytics are so easy to get now, compared to getting max roll uniques (lol not even talking about ga), it’s like standard gearing now.

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and yet people still say they are way too rare xD

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That’s a good perspective, maybe I have it skewed being where i play in eternal, since most people don’t even level to 100, I must be in the “streamer” category of end game focus.

It may be much better situation in seasons.

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This is old news. A year ago in Season 1 resistance was ignore because it didn’t matter at all.
I don’t think anyone ever wonder why the armor cap is at 9320 exactly instead of 12,000. Blizzard can easily lower monsters damage value to compensate for low armor value but instead put in this random value of 9320. For all classes.

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I would love to see options when crafting gems. Emerald for example: One craft is a poison resist craft (for any piece of gear) and another is a straight Dex craft, for any piece of gear.

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yea. it shouldnt be something insane, but just more options for sure will be great

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If you are lucky enough to get an item that over caps resistance without applying gems to jewelry, I would think not getting any benefit from gems is an ok trade off for the large power of the item.

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yea thats a fair point, but even without tyraels you easily overcap on armor and resistances. moreso if you are an int class.

but yea, you arent wrong, hence why id say that these gem options shouldnt be strong or crazy, just an alternative.

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Yah there is a lot of build difference when it comes to optimal resist and armor. Right now I need a crit on my armor affix on Vasily’s helm to roll armor off my pants and use full skulls in jewelry for armor cap while wearing Tyreal’s and Starless.

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I think tyraels is BIS for almost all builds right now, so All res is generally always covered.

Shako is #2 for bis, and then covers armor.

The ring of starless prob as most used.

I’m a Druid main, and i know the helms (tempest in the past not so much now), make it impossible to use shako…